Trisong Detsen

Ingested on the line stated in the header: the retrievable material about him is the Samye narrative, which is a story about land-spirits, not a reign-chronicle. No claim is made here about his identification as an emanation, which the retrieved sources do not carry.

Domains

• kingship
• patronage of the dharma

Relations

• invited: ŚāntarakṣitaIn-batch.Reference treatment of the founding of Samye: Santaraksita was invited to Tibet by King Trisong Detsen, founded the temple and monastery of Samye and ordained the first seven Tibetan monks in 779, establishing the Tibetan sangha; construction begun in 763 met serious resistance from the non-human forces native to Tibet, and at Santaraksita's insistence the king invited the Indian Vajrayana master Padmasambhava, who tamed the local spirits and bound all human and non-human obstructers to the service of the Dharma before the monastery's completion in 767. (secondary)
• invited: PadmasambhavaIn-batch.Reference treatment of the founding of Samye: Santaraksita was invited to Tibet by King Trisong Detsen, founded the temple and monastery of Samye and ordained the first seven Tibetan monks in 779, establishing the Tibetan sangha; construction begun in 763 met serious resistance from the non-human forces native to Tibet, and at Santaraksita's insistence the king invited the Indian Vajrayana master Padmasambhava, who tamed the local spirits and bound all human and non-human obstructers to the service of the Dharma before the monastery's completion in 767. (secondary)
• descendant in the line of: Songtsen GampoIn-batch. Written as a RELATION and not as parentIds: the sources give a dynastic line and not a parentage, and in this corpus parentIds drives the computed tier. Lane 23's rule.Reference treatment of the Yarlung kings and the sky-rope: Nyatri Tsenpo was the first king of Tibet and the legendary progenitor of the Yarlung dynasty, said to have descended from the heavens on a rope of light and to have begun ruling the people of the valley around the second century BCE; legend states that the rulers of Tibet descended from heaven to earth on a cord and were pulled back up when their time came, and that Nyatri Tsenpo at his death ascended to heaven by this 'sky rope', as did his successors for the next six generations; Drigum Tsenpo, the eighth king of Tibet, was the first to lose his immortality when he angered his stable master Lo-Ngam, who cut the cord, leading to Drigum Tsenpo's death; he thus became the first Tibetan ruler to be buried on earth, and the legend marks the transition from mythological divine kings to historical rulers with physical burial sites. (secondary)

Sources

• The king who invited Śāntarakṣita to Tibet, began the construction of Samye in 763, and at the abbot's insistence invited Padmasambhava, who tamed the local spirits before the monastery's completion in 767.: Reference treatment of the founding of Samye: Santaraksita was invited to Tibet by King Trisong Detsen, founded the temple and monastery of Samye and ordained the first seven Tibetan monks in 779, establishing the Tibetan sangha; construction begun in 763 met serious resistance from the non-human forces native to Tibet, and at Santaraksita's insistence the king invited the Indian Vajrayana master Padmasambhava, who tamed the local spirits and bound all human and non-human obstructers to the service of the Dharma before the monastery's completion in 767. (secondary)